Monday, February 25, 2008

Ok, I can't seem to blog or even be online as frequently as I used to, and as I want to! Does this ever happen to you guys? Ever since Daiku and I got back to Syracuse in January, we have been a little less than creative with food, photography, everything that would be blog-worthy.

I know that this happens to almost everyone from time to time, and that sooner or later I will be back to blogging at a quicker pace. But for now, I'm just checking in to let you know that I haven't gone anywhere!

If you are a member of the PPK, you might recognize the above image. For a few weeks now, I have been using my pictures of food to make photo mosaics, each in a different color. So far I'm up to 6: green, orange, red, pink, purple, and yellow. They are really fun to make, and a bit addictive. Also, they have helped me immensely as I struggle with winter depression- just looking at all these bright, fresh foods makes me happier! It is amazing the variety of colorful foods that vegans eat, no?

And, thanks to some peer pressure encouragement, I have put the designs up on Cafe Press. If you want a food mosic journal, or t-shirt, or tile, or (my favorite!) clock, you can buy it here: www.cafepress.com/bazu

Please browse and tell me what you think! I've never done anything like this before, so all of you with more graphics and design experience and knowledge than me, please feel free to give me feedback! In any case, I hope the mosaics bring you guys some happiness, especially if like me, you are staring outside at a cloudy snowscape and wondering if spring will ever get here.

As for me, I'm off to visit all of your blogs and see what you've been up to! Oh, and I'm looking forward to having my 100,000th blog hit in the next day or two. This is so amazing to me, and makes me more grateful than ever for all you visitors!

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Oh, I can totally relate to the blogging blahs. I just confessed to having them on my own blog, and from the comments, it seems like a lot of us suffer from them from time to time. I'm blaming the winter!

I'm clicking over to see your CafePress stuff. I love the mosaics and can't wait to see what you've done with them.

Yes, i definitely understand the burnout. I have been feeling it a bit too lately. I saw your cafepress shop the other week... just stumbled on it really! Those are awesome mosaics, full of color. Hope some inspiration comes to you soon. And congrats on 100,000! Wow, that's amazing.

Oh yeah,I feel ya Bazu. These things happen. I'm actually experiencing a little burst of bloggy enthusiasm these days (which equals something like 7 posts in one month! ha!)... but my life is just so much busier than it used to be. I think I'll always prefer quality over quantity. An occassional fun post like this one - with those awesome photo mosaics!! - is well worth the wait.

hi bazu!! i love your mosaics! i'm a bit of a mosaic fanatic, be it photos, quilts, tiles, stained glass - anything meshed is awesome and i'll be hopping right over to see your stuff. yes, the blahs -- i'm trying to shake it!!

be still my chromatically triggered heart, those are beautiful! And don't worry about the food burnout, spring will creep into the vegetables soon. I had a carrot the other day and I chewed and I chewed and it hit me that it tasted *different*, like sweeter and fuller and full of life, and it's only almost march! Salad days are coming! and oooooh, 100,000 hits, congratulations! :D

I hear ya -- I think we all have the end-of-winter blahs a little bit. I'm ready for some spring food (and cheaper produce prices!!) I have a feeling we'll all be blogging like crazy once the produce is back and better than ever!

You know I can relate to your post - I did take like three months off! Have no fear, though, spring will appear soon and you'll want to blog more than ever. (Although I'm questioning what I just wrote about spring since it's snowed for about 24 hours straight here...)

Oh, tell me about it. My desire to blog waxes and wanes every couple months or so. I am so ready for spring, it's not even funny. Even though it's sunny and in the 20's here (which for us, is like summer!) I still have the winter blah's. But anyway, your mosaics are BEAUTIFUL--great work. :)

Rural Vegan, I haven't cooked with bitter melon yet, but several people offered really good suggestions in the comments section of this post: http://wherestherevolution.blogspot.com/2007/11/in-honor-of-world-vegan-day.html

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All the food on this blog, unless explicitly noted, is vegan. That means that no animal products (flesh, milk, eggs, or gelatin) have been used. So go ahead and enjoy the food porn-ice cream! omlettes! baked goods galore!- guilt-free.